pruner
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You can also check out your local hardware store for Corona Tools’ BP13630, a.k.a. the Yard Essentials pocket pruner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
Then use a hand pruner for small jobs or a string trimmer or hedge clipper for larger plantings.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Newhouse maneuvered an extendable pole pruner around a branch; with a pull of a string, the blade snapped shut, and the bag fell.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
"He was nice but he was depressed," said Eugene Hernandez, a tree pruner staying at the shelter.
From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2015
The pruner merely left the trunk and the three or four main laterals, the latter about one foot in length.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
To harvest, wait until after the first light frost, which will sweeten their flavor, then pull hips off the plant or clip them using scissors or pruners.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
But, by all means, keep a pair of sharp scissors or pruners handy and trim back as needed at the end of summer or anytime a bare or tired, unproductive branch develops.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
Use a clean pair of pruners to cut about a quarter-inch below the node at a 45-degree angle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022
Also sharpen your pruners and keep them rust-free with a regular squirt of oil.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2021
Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
